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I took for the purpose of making a field and was to have all I 

 could get from it for five }'ears. When I took it in August, 

 1886, it was covered with a growth of Alders, with here and 

 there an open space, excepting two acres which had been plowed. 

 I commenced at once cutting down and burning the bushes and 

 alders. The first year I plowed fourteen acres and sowed thir- 

 teen of them with grass seed. 



It was plowed by a two horse team and at the rate of about 

 three-fourths of an acre a day. 



The next year I took for the first crop eighteen tons of hay. 

 That year I planted one acre with potatoes and received 70 

 bushels. I then sowed it with grass seed and broke a half acre 

 more of the land. The next year I cut sixteen (16) tons of 

 hay. This year I plowed and sowed clown the remaining land, 

 and have cut fifteen tons of hay. The hay would have weighed 

 more, but there was so much rain and cloudy weather, it did not 

 ripen well. I have received from the land within, $125, enough 

 to pay for the outlay, and have two more crops to take from it to 

 complete the term of five years. 



I received : 



1st year.— 18 tons of hay at $11. Standing $198.00. 



2d " —16 " " " " " " 176.00. 



" " 70 bushels of potatoes at 75c. 52.50. 



3d " 15 tons of hay, 165.00. 



Expense of plowing, 

 Cutting and burning bushes, 

 Fertilizers and manures, 



Expense exceeds receipts by $124.50. 



716.00. 



N. N. DUMMER. 



